Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.